Non-refillable bottle.



No. 798,,805. PATENTED JULY 4.-, 1.905. A. SUHENGK.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED 0012.8,1904.

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EPEGIIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 798,805, dated July 4;,1905,

Application filed October 8, 1904-. Serial No. 227,718.

Be it known that l, Anons'r rlon suck, a citizen oi the United sans,residing at Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful linprovemei its in Non-RefillableBottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a bottle which it will beimpossible to lill after it has been once sealed, but which at the sametime will allow the liquor therein contained to be poured out, therebyallowing the bottle to be lilled but once and preventing thesubstitution of interior liquor in place 01 the gennine liquororiginally filled into the bottle.

Another object o'l. the invention is to so ar range the parts that theonti re bottle and valve members may he formed from glass, which is asubstance which will not corrode or deteriorate and which will not inany way impair the quality of the liquor contained.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange the parts that it willbe ll'IlPOSSllJlO to tamper with or remove the valve without destroyingthe bottle.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange the valve members thatthey may be easily slipped into the bottle and permal'iently positionedtherein after the bottle has been lilled; and a final object of theinvention is to so construct and arrange the bottle as a whole that itsoperation will be perfect and at the same time enable the parts to beeasily constructed and assembled.

The invention consists in the teatu res of construction and combinationof parts hereinafter described and claimed.

in the drawings illustrating the invention, liigure l is a sectionalview of the bottle, showing the valve members in elevation; Fig. 2, aiongitudinal section of the innerstopper; Fig. 3, a cross-sectiol'i ot'the inner stopper; l? at, a cros ectional view of the movable valvemember taken on line a lof Fig. l; l ig. 5, an end view of the movablevalve member, and Fig. (3 a longitudimil sectional view of the frlitlll0.

inside oi the glass.

The bottle '1. is blown to have a contracted throat E2 and an enlargedneck 3, which neck terminates in a mouthl, and between theneck 5 and themouth is an annular groove on the Vl ithin the contracted threat is amovable valve member 6, having a rounded cup-shapcnl head 7, provided onits upper face with a conical recess 8, and the valve member terminatesin a dopeiulingstem 9, provided with a series of grooves or channelsll), which stein serves as a weight or balance to hold the movable valvemember in place and hold the rounded cup-shaped head seated against thecontracted walls of the throat when the bottle is standing right sideup, as shown in Fig. l. \Vithin the conical recess 8 is a ball ll,preferably of glass, and above the ball is an inner plug 12, which is 5provided with a Cllitl'lllJfll 13 on its interior, within which chamberis located a lillingqilug l l, preferably of cork, although rubber orother elastic material may be used. The plug 12 is open at its lower orinner end for the in- 7 sertion of the filling, and, the end of the plugand filling are provided with a conical recess 15 in alinement andcooperating with the recess is in the movable valve member. Within therounded exterior wall of the plug are a series of three holes 16, withinwhich are located balls 17, preferably formed of glass, which balls abutagainst the elastic filling for the plug and normally outwardlyproject'from the plug and are adapted to be driven in or 30 compressedagainst the elastic filling when pressure is brought to bear on theballs, and said balls when the plug is inserted in place extend into theannular groove or channel 5 in the inner wall of the bottle-neck,locking 5 the plug in place and preventing its removal when onceinserted. The closure of the bottle is conniletcd by an exterior cork18, which fits into the mouth of the bottle-neck.

in use the liquor, patentmedicine, or other 9 fluid is filled into thebottle befmc the insertion of any of the valve members, and after thefilling operation the movable valve mem ber is Iirst inserted into thebottle and falls bottle.

down to its scat against the contracted throat, in which position it ismaintained by the weight of the stem, after which the ball is insertedinto the bottle to rest within the recess 8 in the movable valve member,so thatthe weight 5 of the ball will serve and hold the valve firmlyseated when in upright position, as shown in Fig. 1.. After the ball hasbeen inserted the closing-plug is entered into the mouth of the bottleand presses down through the month, which pressure causes the balls 17to he compressed into the elastic lilling for the plug by the contactwith the wall of the month until the plug has been forced into theposition shown in Fig. 1, in which the balls come into line with thegroove or channel 5 and spring out\ 'ardly by the pressure from within,locking the plug in place within the neck of the bottle and at asullicient distance from the movable valve member to allow the ball tohave a considerable play between the two members. The inner plug is of asize to leave a slight annular space around its exterior tor the passageof liquor from the bottle, and when constructed as herein shown to havethe lilling entered into the plug from the inner or lower end it will beimpossible to remove the elastic lilling to obtain access to the ballswhich lock the plug in place.

When it is desirable to pour out the liquor, the bottle is unsealed bythe removal of the exterior cork 1S and then tilted up sutlicieutly tocause the ball to roll from the movable valve member to the plug, whichallows the movable member to be unseated and the liquor to flow aroundthe movable valve, around. the walls of the plug, and out of the mouthof the As soon, however, the bottle is brought back to urnight positionor even when the bottle approaches an upright position the movablemember will seat itselt' by the action of the depending stem and theball will roll back into place to exert pressure against the movablemember, holding it in position and preventing the im'low o't liquorintothe bottle.

It will be seen from the 'l oregoing description that the bottle of thepresent invention is of a construction which enables the parts to bereadily assembled after the lilling ot the bottle, and when assembled itwill be impossible to relill the bottle with spurious or in teriorliquor.

The parts are so arranged that the bottle will be entirely open for theadmission of liqnor prior to the sealing operation, since none of themembers herein described are permanent features of the bottle itself,but are all of them introduced into the bottle after the fillingoperation, and that the bottle itself does not diflier materially fromthe bottles heretofore constructed, so that it will not be necessary todepart to any appreciable extent from the methods heretofore employedfor the I manufacturing of bottles. This is a feature 1 of importance,since it enables the same bottle to be used with or without the featuresof l the present invention, so that it will be possible to use a uniformgrade of bottles and to 1 apply the sealing means of the presentinvention to only such bottles as it is desirable to i prevent frombeing relilled. l What I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

i. In a non-refillable bottle,thc combination of a bottle having acontracted throat and a neck having a recess in its inner wall, amovable valve member adapted to seat against the threat, a ball adaptedto bear against the movable valve member, a closing-plug provided l onits interior with a compressible substance and having in its wall aseries of openings and provided with a plurality of members normall youtwardly projecting from the plug and in contact with the compressiblesubstance and adapted to be compressed during the insertion of the pluginto the bottleanouth and to be forced outwardly to enter the recess inthe neck, substantially as described.

2. In a non-refillable bottlc,the combination of a bottle having acontracted throat terminating in a neck having an annular recess in itsinner wall, a valve member within the throat, a closing-plug of lessdiameter than the neck and hollow on its interior and provided with aseries of openings through its wall, acompressible substance on theinterior of the plug, and a series of balls entered into the holes inthe wall to bear against the compressible substance and enter theannular recess in the neck when the plug has been inserted into place,substantially as described.

3. In a non-refillable bottle,the combination of a bottle having acontracted throat terminating in a neck having an annular recess in itsinner wall, a valve member within the threat, a closing-plug of lessdiameter than the neck and hollow on its interior and provided with aseries of openings through its wall, a compressible substance on theinterior of the plug, a series of balls entered into the holes in thewall to bear against the compressible substance and enter the annularrecess in the neck when the plug has been inserted into place, and amovable ball between the movable valve memher and the plug and adaptednormally to bear against the valve member, substantially as described.

4:. In a non-refillable bottle,the combination of a bottle having athroat forming a seatingtace and terminating in a neck having in itsinner wall an annular groove or channel, a movable valve member providedwith an enlarged seating-head and a depending stem, a ball adaptednormally to bear against the seat- I ing-head, a closing-plug hollow onits interior 1 and provided with a solid outer end wall and nwwhled alsoWllill :1 series of holes or 0p0nlugs tln'ul lg'll its side Wall, a plugof con'lpressilJln snbnlnnce entered into the interior of thenlnsingwlng, and a series of members entered lnlm Elm holes to beenagainst the c0mpr0ssilJlO plug); and be forcetl inwardly during thelmlnl'tlnn of thn plug into the bottle-neck and Us; nutlwm'mlly[)l()jGCl)(3Ll into the annular 1'0 0055 to porlnzmunlvly locl; theplug; in place, in a position to allow a slight; movmnnnl; to lvlzn IOlmll, snllslvz'mtially as clcscrlbecl.

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